AS HIGHER Education Minister Blade Nzimande once again outlined why free higher education for all was not a possibility, the EFF proposed a retirement fund levy to fund the country‘s fees shortfall. Addressing parliament yesterday, Nzimande reiterated the government‘s stance during a debate on university fees that free education for all was impossible, and that the government had worked hard to ensure the poor and the so-called missing middle were able to access higher education. Nzimande said 75% of University of Johannesburg students either paid very little or no fees. This figure at the University of Fort Hare was 90%, he said. The public service would suffer heavily if universities did not complete the academic year, the minister said. “If the 2016 trainee teachers do not graduate, about 20000 classrooms will be without teachers at the beginning of next year. “Junior doctors, those that are hoping to graduate this year, are at the front line of service delivery in public-sector...
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